caddie
/ˈkædi/
"caddie" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“caddie” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #46,964. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,964
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of cadet (“a gentleman (often a younger son from a noble family) who joined the military without a commission as a career”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-caddie · caddie · English
caddie · rank #46,964 · 6 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,964
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Caplan
Nearest frequency peer: Caplan (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “caddie”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- bursa
bursa
53,044 corpus weight
- busta
busta
53,042 corpus weight
- bylaw
bylaw
53,041 corpus weight
- caddie
caddie
53,037 corpus weight
- Caplan
Caplan
53,036 corpus weight
- Carrillo
Carrillo
53,035 corpus weight
What this shows “caddie” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caddie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkædi/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #46,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “caddie”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around caddie (IPA /ˈkædi/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,964 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for caddie, with forms such as "acddie", "caddei", and "cadide". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "cadre", "caddy", "Cardi", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: The noun is borrowed from Scots caddie (“military cadet; young man; ragamuffin; person engaged to run errands; person hired to assist a golfer”), from French cadet (“army cadet; younger sibling”), from capdet (“captain; chief”) (Gascony, archaic), from Late… The correct English form is caddie, spelled C-A-D-D-I-E.
Definition
- 1Synonym of cadet (“a gentleman (often a younger son from a noble family) who joined the military without a commission as a career”).
- 2A young man; a boy, a lad; specifically (derogatory), one regarded as of low social status; a ragamuffin.
- 3A person engaged to run errands such as carrying goods and messages; a commissionaire, an errand boy or errand girl, a gofer; specifically, a member of an organized group of such persons working in large Scottish cities and towns in the early 18th century.
- 4A person hired to assist a golfer by carrying their golf clubs and providing advice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caddie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But gie him't het, my hearty cocks! / E'en cowe the cadie!
A tattered cadie, or errand porter, whom David Deans had jostled in his attempt to extricate himself from the vicinity of the scorners, exclaimed in a strong north-country tone, "Ta de'il ding out her Cameronian een—what gi'es her titles to dunch gentlemans about?"
Etymology
The noun is borrowed from Scots caddie (“military cadet; young man; ragamuffin; person engaged to run errands; person hired to assist a golfer”), from French cadet (“army cadet; younger sibling”), from capdet (“captain; chief”) (Gascony, archaic), from Late Latin capitettum, from Latin caput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“head”). Doublet of cadel, cadet, capital, capitellum, and caudillo. The verb is derived from the noun.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acddie
- caddei
- cadide
- cadie
- ccaddie
- cdadie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caddie - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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